Revision of the New World Panthea Hübner (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae) with descriptions of 5 new species and 2 new subspecies
Author
Anweiler, Gary G.
87B63195-32B4-4FAF-8732-54242BF1FAA9
E. H. Strickland Entomological Museum, 218 Earth Sciences Building, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, T 6 G 2 E 9
gganweiler@shaw.ca)
text
ZooKeys
2009
2009-05-12
9
9
97
134
journal article
10.3897/zookeys.9.157
f309b9a6-ba6b-4f63-96b6-caf37e4e2a21
1313–2970
576456
20B00870-7416-4583-ADE0-4302E5571B66
Panthea
judyae
species-group
The
Panthea judyae
species-group is comprised of three species that occur in pine forests of western North America south to
Guatemala
in Central America:
P. judyae
,
P. gigantea
,
and
P. guatemala
.
The group is characterized by a large bifurcate scoop-shaped clasper, bulbous vesica with two large curved cornuti and anterior oriented ductus in the male, and a large, massively sclerotized sterigma in the female.